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LIT files are a proprietary Microsoft e-book format. Proprietary is always bad, but you can't help it if sometimes you get files in the format (from, er, you know...various sources.) Those occasions, though, will be rare.

There's no package in the Ubuntu repositories that can help you with this. There is a program, though, called Convert-Lit, but you'll have to go download and build it yourself. Convert Lit will convert a LIT file into HTML as well as OEBPF format.

The best instructions for building C-Lit can be found here. I'm reproducing a simplified set of instructions based on that document.

First, install the build-essential package, if you haven't already done so. I've already covered it in a previous entry.